Nicolas-Patience Bàsâbósè RGTABWB, Intl Assoc. AIA

C'est tout ce qu'il voulait pour le #Congo et c'est tout ce qu'il nous demande de là-haut!!!! Patrice Eméry Lumumba.

BREAKING: President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico has agreed to host Iran’s national football team during the World Cup after the US declined to do so, Reuters reports. 🔴 More on Aljazeera.com

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video. Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments. The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times. Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it. Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone. The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

With my running strikes, I'll hurt my ankles with this thing.

Michael Essien’s wife, 𝐀𝐤𝐨𝐬𝐮𝐚 𝐏𝐮𝐧𝐢 𝐄𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐞𝐧, will forever have a place in Como 1907’s modern story. In 2017, she bought the struggling Italian club at auction when they were battling financial problems and facing an uncertain future. Her move helped keep Como alive before a bigger rebuild followed. That moment also strengthened Como’s connection with 🇬🇭 Ghana. The relationship grew over the years, and some of the club’s players even visited Ghana last year to connect with the country, experience its football culture and build ties beyond Italy. Years later, the Indonesian Djarum Group took over and gave Como fresh structure and investment. Cesc Fabregas also became part of the project, first as a player and minority shareholder before becoming head coach. Under Fabregas, Como have now made history by qualifying for the Champions League for the first time in the club’s history.

Bénin 🇧🇯 : L’homme que l’on aperçoit derrière est le Chef du protocole de la Présidence de la République du Bénin depuis l’époque du Président Mathieu Kérékou. Il a servi successivement 4 Chefs d’État. Cela montre une chose essentielle : la Présidence est une institution, et non la propriété privée d’un individu arrivé au pouvoir après une élection. Dans certains pays africains, dès qu’un dirigeant accède au pouvoir, il écarte tous les cadres expérimentés, fragilise les institutions, puis remplace les compétences par des proches, des amis ou des membres de sa famille. Peu à peu, l’État cesse d’être une République pour devenir un patrimoine familial ou tribal. C’est malheureusement l’une des raisons qui freinent encore le développement de nombreuses nations africaines.

Twins and their father 1950s

DRC and Zambia where new copper deposits are found regularly will become crucial global suppliers as world demand for copper nearly doubles from 23million tonnes now to 41million tonnes by 2040 - even though more than 60% of all copper ever mined is still in use today in various forms, coz copper is 100% recyclable, highly conductive – both electrically and thermally – and durable.

As we celebrate Africa Day this May 25, it is important to remember the reality that Africa, as we know it, does not truly exist. If it does, it exists only as a colonial construct born in Berlin (1884-5), out of reification, invasion, and imperialism. In the words of V. Y. Mudimbe, colonialism “invented” Africa through structures of knowledge, domination, and representation that continue to shape how the continent is imagined today.

The Bank of Scotland has unveiled a limited edition £20 note featuring an image inspired by Scott McTominay’s famous overhead kick heraldscotland.com/news/26135300.…

In leaked audio recordings, Peter Thiel revealed he told JD Vance to ignore Pope Leo XIV on moral issues, including the development of ethical AI. Calling Leo XIV the “woke American pope,” he also suggested the American pope was a tool of the Antichrist. Now, Pope Leo XIV is releasing what’s expected to be an historic encyclical addressing AI tomorrow morning. thelettersfromleo.com/p/new-jd-vance…

J’espère que les 37 pays qui ont eu des cas contacts au Hantavirus auront le même traitement

Clueless kids

The first illegal immigrants.

If Rubio knew the history or architecture, he wouldn't have posed for a picture here. This monument was built out for the love of emperor's Iranian wife, crafted by the genius of Iranian architects — meanwhile his government today threatens to wipe out Iranian civilization, insulting other civilizations.

CONGO-DRC | On the sidelines of the AfDB annual meetings, Brazzaville and Kinshasa are preparing to launch a call for proposals for the construction of a civil engineering structure financed with support from Africa50. ➡️ l.africaintelligence.fr/gFc

Africa is the only world region where fertility remains above the replacement level.

So that is their so-called movement!? I bet the two idiots don't even have the money to buy anything to put in that stolen fridge.

Des humains avec un taux aussi élevé d'inutilité notoire doivent avoir des gènes typiquement Congolais.

@DhegoB Un figurant dans le système.

@MrBasabose On dirait qu'il n'a aucun pouvoir

Isn't he their president?

Ce jeune médecin,Dr Vladimir, est décédé aujourd'hui à Bunia des suites de la Maladie à virus Ebola. il est mort au front, en respectant son serment. Gloire soit rendue au Très Haut. #RIP